Category Archives: My WP Plugins

Posts relating to plugins written by me for WP, click the link further up for the plugins

Code Display

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Ever wanted to display some code on your blog only to find that the HTML inbetween the or 

 tags got rendered instead of actually displaying it? Then you had to go manually replace any < or > characters with &lt; and &gt;. What a pain.


So, in comes this plugin. It automatically applies PHP's htmlspecialchars() to the code contents for display. It also fixes a bug of sorts where WordPress will apply paragraph codes inside of code tags when you have two line breaks.


Here it is in action (in a 


 though) and note that I typed it into the "Write Page" exactly as it appears:


Click here to go to Google.com.


Here's Google's logo:


Google's Logo


Download link here which is also where you should leave any comments.

WeatherIcon v2.2.0 Released

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Garett and I have released a new version of WeatherIcon. Here are the version changes:

  • The sunrise / sunset times are now retrievable from Weather Underground. To enable, check the checkbox in the WeatherIcon configuration page.
  • Changed function argument input format to a query-string-style while keeping backwards compatibility in order to not break existing templates. For details on the query-string-style, see the WordPress Codex.
  • Added the ability to change the name of the WP-Dash widget to the location label. See this screenshot for an example.
  • Expanded “Usage Information” section on the configuration page.
  • Various bugfixes and additional debug information.

For more details, visit the WeatherIcon plugin page where you should also leave any comments.

My Take On “WeatherIcon”

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I’ve released a build of the WordPress plugin “WeatherIcon” (original site here) that includes some bug fixes by one of the original authors (Garett) plus most importantly, a widget for WP-Dash (a total replacement for the WordPress Dashboard and is one of the coolest plugins ever).

Here is a screenshot of some examples of the WeatherIcon widget in action:

WeatherIcon WP-Dash Widget Screenshot

More details on my release of WeatherIcon which includes the widget can be found here. Leave comments there.

One Of The Coolest WP Plugins Ever

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I know you’re probably getting tired of me posting about all of the new plugins that I’ve been installing into my blog, but I couldn’t resist sharing just one more.

This one is called WP-Dash and it’s a full replacement for the default WordPress dashboard. WP-Dash implements movable “widgets” (modular content boxes) which themselves can be plugins allowing for pretty much anything to be displayed on your dashboard.

Here, for example, is how I currently have my dashboard set up:

My WordPress Dashboard [Thumbnail]

Pretty cool, huh? And each box is draggable so you can rearrange it to your heart’s desire! 🙂

Oh, and if you’re wondering where I got the “Recent Comments” widget, I wrote it myself and you can get it right here.